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Interim CEO Ellen Pao has said that change is on the way following Reddit’s return to normal following last week’s mod protest. A number of the site’s subreddits were last week locked down after the mod in charge of the site’s popular AMAs, named Victoria, was allegedly fired. The bigger …
Read More »Ubisoft changed its policies after Watchdogs downgrade drama
The hostile reaction toward the graphical downgrade experienced by Watchdogs between its unveiling and release led to a change of policy at Ubisoft. The game was upon its release last year widely criticised for failing to live up to the visual promises made in some of its pre-release material. Now …
Read More »PewDiePie made £4.8m in 2014, report claims
Revenues for YouTube personality increase sharply
Read More »NME to introduce video games coverage as it goes free
Weekly music magazine NME is to become free in September, with video games joining a number of new topics being introduced to its pages. The switch will see 300k copies of the magazine handed out at stations, universities and retailers each week. The magazine’s circulation fro the latter half of …
Read More »Star Citizen dev opens Frankfurt studio
Development branch aims to hire up to 30 new staff this year
Read More »Mac version of Final Fantasy XIV pulled from sale, refunds offered
Square Enix has withdrawn the Mac version of Final Fantasy XIV after it launched on June 23rd with a number of serious problems, chief of which being pretty poor performance on even the beefiest of Macs. It has admitted the minimum specs it previously released were inaccurate and not sufficient …
Read More »DreamHack brings $40,000 eSports Open to London in September
DreamHack, the originally Swedish LAN party that has evolved into a premiere stop on the eSports calendar, is coming to London’s Copper Box in September. The weekend of the 19-20 September marks the first time DreamHack has set foot in the UK, making the country the seventh outside of their …
Read More »UK development studio closures fell 30% in 2014
The number of UK game studio closures fell by 30 per cent in 2014 compared to 2013, according to new research from TIGA. Its findings revealed that there were 75 closures last year, compared to 107 during the year prior. The number of start-ups has fallen however. 99 games companies …
Read More »PewDiePie Productions made $7.45m in 2014
YouTube star PewDiePie continues to ascend to new financial heights, doubling his earnings in the last year. A report from Swedish newspaper Expressen, as spotted by Neogaf and reported by Destructoid, says that Felix Kjellberg’s company PewDiePie Productions made in excess of $7.45m in 2014. Last year it was reported …
Read More »Number of UK studio closures fell by 30% in 2014
Overall studio headcount increased by ten per cent
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